20 Most Replayable Video Games Of The Decade (So Far)

12. Super Meat Boy

Speaking of difficulty curves, Super Meat Boy's is a hop, skip and jump up a brick wall you'll struggle to overcome, as once you get the first few levels out the way, it's a one-way trip to the platforming stylings of old, the challenge being in memorising a huge number of inputs before pulling them off with pixel-perfect precision. Two-man dev studio Team Meat inadvertently birthed a masterpiece here, deliberately stripping things back to a time when challenge was the key reason you played games at all. It's since become the bastion for platforming as a genre, and the go-to test of any gamer's mettle. Have a go if you think you can handle it, I promise you the whirring buzzsaw blades will get you before your own force of will expires.